The way that America relies on pure memorization for pretty much everything is ridiculous. It gives some people who are good at that an advantage even if they severely lack critical thinking or intelligence while those with poor memory and the neurodivergent suffer. The other thing that annoys me is when people equate good memory to smart and or memory to dumb regardless of the person’s reasoning or decisions and judge based on that
Also punishes kids for not spending an additional part time job of work after school doing hw and studying when they just went through a whole job with of work at school
It’s an outdated system of teaching and learning and assessment for sure. Realistically with the Internet we really don’t need to memorize much at all anymore. Teachers need to adapt their curriculum to focus more on teaching skills like critical thinking, note-taking and organizational strategies, writing, discussion/communication, etc; using their content area as a vehicle for teaching those skills. Teach students the merits and pitfalls of online media and LLMs, and media literacy as a whole. Hell, we should be teaching students how to use real computers and keyboarding too. But sadly teachers don’t have much say in this anymore now that they are instead required to teach a set curriculum in a prescribed way that is meant to teach towards standardized tests.
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